U+CD2C "촬" Hangul Syllable Cwal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
촬
U+CD2C "촬" Hangul Syllable Cwal is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound /tɕʰwal/. It is formed by combining the initial consonant 'ㅊ' (chieut), the vowel 'ㅘ' (wa), and the final consonant 'ㄹ' (rieul). This syllable appears in Korean vocabulary, such as in the word "촬영" (chwalyeong) meaning "filming" or "photography," and it is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which systematically organizes all 11,172 possible syllabic combinations used in contemporary Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CD2C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cwal |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "촤" U+CD24 Hangul Syllable Cwa "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 촬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 촬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB4 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCD2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CD2C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucd2c |